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Every issue, GRAZIA USA highlights Game Changers, who inspire, educate, and celebrate individuality, beauty, and style. Meet Julia Michaels, the singer-songwriter takes a look at fame, and music in the era of TikTok.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I started in the background. I started writing songs for other people when I was 16 and then really working with other artists when I was 19. And then I decided when I was about 23 to put out my own song. As a songwriter, the only experience you have with artists is being in the room with them and being vulnerable with them and talking to them. You don\u2019t see all the little in-betweens that they have to deal with every day. I remember I would hear managers complain about the artists that they were working with, like, \u201cYeah, they don\u2019t want to do this today.\u201d I\u2019m like, What\u2019s the problem? They just have to, like, make music! But becoming an artist yourself is so different. There\u2019s just so many things that you don\u2019t realize go into it: the makeup, the hair, the styling, the interviews, the promo, the not sleeping, the touring. … At first I was horrified. I was just like, This is not me at all. I hate attention. This is why I\u2019m a songwriter! It was really scary. You\u2019re like, in front of 15,000 people and you\u2019e like Please, God, like me.<\/p>\n

But then you find your fans and your crew and your group of like-minded people. And it\u2019s just so different. It\u2019s so supportive and loving; it feels very unconditional and safe. That\u2019s sort of the place that I\u2019m in now, which is very different from where I was five years ago.<\/p>\n

As a songwriter, we\u2019re very emotionally open and emotionally vulnerable at all times. Our brains are trained to hear songs no matter where we go and hear lyrics, no matter where we go. I\u2019ll be talking to somebody and someone will say something and I\u2019m, like, That\u2019s a song. Or, you know, I\u2019ll go through something and I\u2019ll be sitting in the bathroom just, like, self-reflecting and and going through all my thoughts and think, Hey, you know, I haven\u2019t written about that. Or, That\u2019s an interesting way of putting this thing that I\u2019m feeling.<\/p>\n

Obviously I would love for songwriters to get paid easier and better. That\u2019s been a really big issue within the songwriting community. But my biggest fear, truly, is that TikTok has become so huge. It\u2019s such an amazing platform for artists all over the world, but I get nervous for the people that are a little bit more like me: the people that are a little bit more internal and don\u2019t have these really wide personalities. Sometimes artists just aren\u2019t like that. Some of them are some of the most incredible songwriters you\u2019ll ever meet, and I get nervous for them in a time where you have to have a big personality to succeed. I hope there\u2019s some sort of balance that happens with that, because I would hate to see the Fiona Apples of the world fall to the wayside because they don\u2019t have these big TikTok personalities.<\/p>\n

Still, I don\u2019t feel pressure when I write songs. Because when I write songs, I just write whatever I feel. But I definitely feel pressure afterwards. Like, we do the song, we make it, we put it out and then I\u2019m like OK. Now what?<\/p>\n

For me, the next goal really is to be successful enough to have an arena tour. I\u2019ve opened for so many people in different arenas. I\u2019ve played all of the arenas, and then to finally be able to go out there and it\u2019d be my show with my fans would be the most magical thing in the world. 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